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This series of talks about “control” is aimed at students and researchers in the field; talks are usually held in the Engineering Department on Fridays; all are welcome to attend.

Information for arriving at the CUED is available at http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/visitors/

For seminars ogranised before 25 January 2008, see Past Seminars. See also: Department Seminars, University Seminars.

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2 upcoming talks and 82 talks in the archive.

Engineering and medicine: Opportunities in type 1 diabetes

UserDr. Roman Hovorka, Director of Research, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 17 May 2013, 14:00-15:15

Research Challenges in Applying Control to Wheel-Rail Contact Problems

UserProfessor T X Mei, Chair in Control and Mechatronics, University of Salford.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 10 May 2013, 14:00-15:15

Plug-and-Play Synthesis and Computation of Predictive Controllers

UserDr. Colin Jones, Assistant Professor, Automatic Control Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 26 April 2013, 14:00-15:15

Sensor fusion and parameter inference in nonlinear dynamical systems

UserThomas B. Schön, Associate Professor, Linköping University.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR3A.

ClockThursday 18 April 2013, 11:00-12:30

Programming Cells: Computing with DNA

UserDr. Neil Dalchau, Microsoft Research .

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 14:00-15:30

Predictive control of mechatronic systems

UserAbhishek Dutta, PhD student, Ghent University.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

ClockFriday 18 January 2013, 14:00-15:30

Predictive control of mechatronic systems

UserMr Abhishek Dutta, PhD student at University of Gent, Belgium.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

ClockMonday 07 January 2013, 14:00-15:30

Pre CDC talk

UserRichard Pates, David Hayden and Panos Brezas from Control Group, Engineering Department.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 07 December 2012, 14:00-15:30

Compressed Sensing in Cancer Biology? (A Work in Progress)

UserProf. M. Vidyasagar FRS, Univ. of Texas, Dallas.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

ClockFriday 23 November 2012, 14:00-15:30

Innovation in Cambridge Engineering – how to foster it?

UserPieter Knook, Sam Beale and Rick MItchell.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LT0.

ClockFriday 12 October 2012, 14:00-15:30

Probabilistic Methods in Cancer Biology

UserProf. M. Vidyasagar FRS, Univ. of Texas, Dallas.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

ClockTuesday 10 July 2012, 14:00-15:00

Financial Modelling with 2-EPT Levy Processes

UserProfessor Bernard Hanzon, Edgeworth Centre for Financial Mathematics, Edgeworth Centre for Financial Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University College Cork.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR3A.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2012, 14:00-15:00

Engineering and Control of Biological circuits: from yeast to mammalian cells

UserDr. Diego di Bernardo, Research Assistant Professor (Ricercatore), University of Naples “Federico II”.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Economic MPC and the role of exponential turnpike properties

UserProfessor. Dr. Lars Gruene, Chair of Applied Mathematics, Bayreuth University.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Estimation, Identification and control of cell populations

UserProfessor John Lygeros (Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

ClockMonday 07 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Decentralized Optimal Control and Connections to the Human Motor System

UserDr Andrew Lamperski, California Institute of Technology.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Design and flight testing of nonlinear flight control laws

UserDr Thomas Lombaerts (German Aerospace Centre DLR).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 02 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

Hankel structured low rank matrix completion

UserDr Ivan Markovsky (University of Southampton).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

ClockFriday 18 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

An internal model principle for consensus in heterogeneous multi-agent systems

UserProf Frank Allgower (University of Stuttgart).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

ClockThursday 06 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

Robust stability analysis of linear time-varying feedback systems

UserSei Zhen Khong (University of Melbourne).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 16 September 2011, 14:00-15:00

L1 Adaptive Control and Its Transition to Practice

UserProf Naira Hovakimyan (UIUC).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockMonday 05 September 2011, 14:00-15:00

Control Challenges in Powertrain, Combustion and Drilling Control

UserProf Keith Glover (University of Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

ClockFriday 17 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

The Weiss conjecture for infinite dimensional control systems

UserDr Andrew Wynn (Imperial College).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR11.

ClockFriday 13 August 2010, 14:00-15:00

SIMPLY COOPERATIVE

UserProfessor Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

ClockFriday 28 May 2010, 11:00-12:00

Optimal experiment design for open and closed loop identification

UserProfessor Michel Gevers (Université catholique de Louvain).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

ClockTuesday 04 May 2010, 14:00-15:00

Matrix Inequalities with Matrix Unknowns

UserProfessor Bill Helton (Mathematics Department, UC San Diego).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 16 April 2010, 14:00-15:00

Collaborating Swarms, Multi-network Topologies and Constrained Coalitional Games

UserProfessor John Baras (University of Maryland).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

ClockThursday 25 March 2010, 14:00-15:00

SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE: NONLINEAR SYSTEMS ANALYSIS TOOLS USING SUM OF SQUARES

UserDr Antonis Papachristodoulou (University of Oxford).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2010, 14:00-15:00

Energy Flow in Interconnected Systems

UserProfessor Jan Willems (K.U. Leuven).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 14:00-15:00

Q-learning and Pontryagin's Minimum Principle

UserProfessor Sean Meyn (Director, Decision & Control Lab, CSL ECE UIUC).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

ClockWednesday 13 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

Stochastic Model Predictive Control: Tractability and constraint satisfaction

UserProfessor John Lygeros (Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Verifying stability of approximate explicit MPC

UserProfessor Morten Hovd (Deparment of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockFriday 27 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Teaching control using lego

UserDr Glenn Vinnicombe, Control Group, University of Cambridge.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 0.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Fault-tolerant control - is it possible?

UserProfessor Jan Maciejowski (CUED Control Group).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockFriday 13 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Recent Theoretical Developments in Optimal Control

UserProfessor Richard Vinter (Imperial College London).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockFriday 06 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

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UserDr Najl Valeyev (St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, King’s College London School of Medicine).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11.

ClockFriday 02 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Mobile Wireless Networked Controlled Systems: Control Issues

UserProfessor Anthony Tzes (University of Patras, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11.

ClockThursday 17 September 2009, 14:00-15:00

Load balancing by network curvature control

UserProfessor Edmond Jonckheere (Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

ClockFriday 26 June 2009, 14:00-15:00

Synchronverters: Inverters that mimic synchronous generators

UserDr. Qing-Chang Zhong (Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics, The University of Liverpool).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theater 2.

ClockFriday 12 June 2009, 14:00-15:00

Gradient systems: overview and recent results

UserDr Pierre-Antoine Absil (Department of Mathematical Engineering, Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

ClockFriday 01 May 2009, 14:00-15:00

ROBUST PRACTICAL OUTPUT TRACKING FOR HIGHLY NONLINEAR SYSTEMS

UserProfessor Hiroshi Inaba (School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University, Guest Professor, Bristol Institute of Technology, University of the West of England).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

ClockMonday 20 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

Feedback and Robustness in Population Dynamics

UserProfessor Stuart Townley (School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Exeter).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

ClockFriday 03 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

Overview of Control Systems Research at the Rolls-Royce Control and Systems University Technology Centre.

UserProfessor Haydn Thompson (Programme Manager, Rolls-Royce UTC in Control Systems; Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

ClockFriday 27 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

Analytical solutions, duality and symmetry in constrained control and estimation

UserDr Jose De Dona (The University of Newcastle, Australia--on study leave during 2008/2009 at Ecole des Mines de Paris, France).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

R&D in Control & Optimization in ABB Corporate Research

UserDr Alf Isaksson (ABB Corporate Research).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

ClockFriday 13 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

Control systems for Maglev and active railway suspensions

UserProfessor Roger Goodall (Head of Systems Research Division, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

Modularity, polyrhythms, and what robotics and control may yet learn from the brain

UserProfessor Jean-Jacques Slotine (Nonlinear Systems Laboratory, MIT).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

ClockFriday 16 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

Machine learning based approaches for decision & control under uncertainties (in electric power systems)

UserProfessor Louis Wehenkel (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Liege).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 11:00-12:00

Optimal Control behind the Passive Dynamic Walking?

UserDr Kentaro Hirata (Nara Institude of Science and Technology, visiting scholar at CUED).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

ClockFriday 07 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

Input-Output Controllability Analysis and Control Structure Selection

UserProfessor Morten Hovd (Deparment of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

ClockFriday 31 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

Learning to Control

UserDr Carl Edward Rasmussen (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

Stabilisability via time-delayed feedback: an eigenvalue optimisation approach

UserDr Henri Huijberts (School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockFriday 10 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

A systems-scale dynamic analysis of complex biology systems

UserFeng He (Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Germany).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

ClockFriday 11 July 2008, 14:00-15:00

Towards control and design of pulse-based systems

UserDr Ali Belabbas (Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

ClockFriday 27 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

Subdiagonal pivot structures and associated canonical forms under state isometries

UserProfessor Bernard Hanzon (School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Cork).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

ClockTuesday 17 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

Convex Matrix Inequalities vs Linear Matrix Inequalities

UserProfessor Bill Helton (Mathematics Department, University of California San Diego).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

ClockMonday 16 June 2008, 11:30-12:30

Dynamics of Chemical Reaction Networks

UserDr David Angeli (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

ClockFriday 06 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

Feedback Control and the Arrow of Time

UserProfessor Malcolm Smith (Cambridge University Engineering Department).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

ClockFriday 30 May 2008, 11:00-12:00

Stability analysis for hybrid dynamical systems

UserProfessor Andrew R. Teel (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockMonday 12 May 2008, 11:00-12:00

Eulerian and Lagrangian Observability of Point Vortex Flows

UserProfessor Arthur J. Krener (Department of Mathematics, University of California Davis).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

ClockFriday 09 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Price Mechanisms for Distributed Control Synthesis

UserProfessor Anders Rantzer (Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

ClockFriday 02 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Some Applications of the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Rate in Hidden Markov Models

UserDr. M. Vidyasagar (Executive Vice President, Tata Consultancy Services).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockWednesday 09 April 2008, 11:30-12:30

Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Control

UserProfessor Sanjay Lall (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

ClockMonday 07 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Systems and control challenges in model-based reservoir engineering

UserProfessor Paul Van den Hof (Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

ClockFriday 14 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Information Flows in Cooperative Networked Control Systems

UserDr Girish Nair (University of Melbourne, Australia).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Towards applied nonlinear adaptive control

UserProfessor Alessandro Astolfi (Imperial College, London).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

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